Publications

Zhuofeng Li, Yi Lu, Dongfu Jiang, Haoxiang Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Chuan Li, Yu Wang, Shuiwang Ji, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang (2026). ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided Tool-Integrated Agents. ACL 2026.

PDF Code Project

Hangxiao Zhu, Yuyu Zhang, Ping Nie, Yu Zhang (2026). SciImpact: A Multi-Dimensional Multi-Field Benchmark for Scientific Impact Prediction. Findings of ACL 2026.

PDF Dataset Project

Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu (2026). In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use. ICLR 2026.

PDF Code Project Model

Shubham Parashar, Shurui Gui, Xiner Li, Hongyi Ling, Sushil Vemuri, Blake Olson, Eric Li, Yu Zhang, James Caverlee, Dileep Kalathil, Shuiwang Ji (2026). Curriculum Reinforcement Learning from Easy to Hard Tasks Improves LLM Reasoning. ICLR 2026.

Xiusi Chen, Gaotang Li, Ziqi Wang, Bowen Jin, Cheng Qian, Yu Wang, Hongru Wang, Yu Zhang, Denghui Zhang, Tong Zhang, Hanghang Tong, Heng Ji (2026). RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning. ICLR 2026.

PDF Code Project Model

Utkarsh Sahu, Zhisheng Qi, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Nedim Lipka, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Zhang, Yao Ma, Yu Wang (2026). Knowledge Homophily in Large Language Models. WSDM 2026.

Yijia Xiao, Wanjia Zhao, Junkai Zhang, Yiqiao Jin, Han Zhang, Zhicheng Ren, Renliang Sun, Haixin Wang, Guancheng Wan, Pan Lu, Xiao Luo, Yu Zhang, James Zou, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang (2025). Protein Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey. Findings of EMNLP 2025.

Yu Zhang (2025). Internal and External Impacts of Natural Language Processing Papers. ACL 2025.

Yanzhen Shen, Yu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Jiawei Han (2025). A Unified Taxonomy-Guided Instruction Tuning Framework for Entity Set Expansion and Taxonomy Expansion. Findings of ACL 2025.

Yu Zhang, Yanzhen Shen, SeongKu Kang, Xiusi Chen, Bowen Jin, Jiawei Han (2025). Chain-of-Factors Paper-Reviewer Matching. WWW 2025.